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History is My Home: A survey of Texas Architectural Styles is a series of three filmstrip courses produced by the Texas State Historical Association in 1980. The three parts are: European Origins and the Early 19th Century, The Victorian Period, and The Twentieth Century. Along with three 35mm filmstrips and three audio cassettes, this course kit comes with study guides and brochures. As a whole, the series explains major architectural influences on buildings in Texas (with many examples from Austin), making the case that a lot can be learned about the history of Texas by understanding where the architectural styles came from and why they became dominant.

First developed in the 1940’s, the filmstrip was a classroom educational technology that was comprised of a small roll of 35mm film that would be advanced one frame at a time through a projector, along with an audio recording that narrated the lesson. Filmstrip became an alternative to the more expensive 16mm educational films until it was replaced by videocassettes in the 1990s. You can read more about the history and technology of filmstrips here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmstrip

Unfortunately the Austin History Center does not have the equipment necessary to be able to view filmstrip programs. Additionally, the History is My Home filmstrips are beginning to deteriorate with the distinct beginnings of vinegar syndrome. So in the interest of access and digital preservation, the each frame of the filmstrips was scanned and the audio cassettes digitized to create a video representation of what it would be like to watch this form of instructional media. The three filmstrips in this course are combined into one video, but the table of contents below will allow viewers to select topics that might interest them.

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European Origins
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:58 - Pre European and arrival of the Spanish to Texas
00:02:45 – Building missions and presidios
00:03:19 – Mission San Jose, San Antonio
00:03:46 – The Alamo, San Antonio
00:04:08 – Log cabins and houses
00:06:12 – The frame house
00:07:00 – The European immigration to Texas
00:07:15 – The German influence
00:07:45 – Fachwerk construction
00:08:09 – The Alsatian influence
00:08:36 – Spanish influences in the Rio Grande Valley
00:09:58 – The Palisado
00:10:39 – Adobe
00:11:02 – Greek revival architecture
00:13:00 – The Victorian influence
00:13:23 – Review and Conclusion



The Victorian Period
00:14:31 – Introduction
00:16:03 – The key aspects of Victorian architecture
00:16:19 – Gothic revival
00:17:15 - Romanesque revival
00:18:07 – Gingerbread and Jigsaw ornamentation
00:18:42 – The Littlefield House, Austin
00:19:27 – The Mansard roof
00:19:54 – The Victorian influence on commercial buildings
00:20:52 – The Driskill Hotel, Austin
00:21:12 – County Courthouses
00:21:51 – Review and Conclusion



The Twentieth Century
00:23:03 – Introduction
00:24:11 – Flatiron Building, Fort Worth
00:24:20 – Commercial style architecture
00:25:00 – Modernistic architecture
00:25:25 – Texas Highway Department Building, Austin
00:25:57 – Normandie Arms, Austin
00:26:15 – Texas State Fair Complex, Dallas
00:27:00 – Recognizing architectural styles in commercial buildings
00:27:37 – Mission revival architecture
00:28:30 – The Bungalow
00:29:40 – International style architecture
00:30:27 – Identifying architectural styles in contemporary structures
00:32:49 – The challenge and importance of preservation